A Columbia University Education in Three Minutes—For Free! [on Hamid Dabashi]

A year's tuition, plus room and board, at Columbia University can cost $70,000—a huge amount for struggling students and parents in these anxious economic times. That's a year's salary in most white collar fields, or the down payment on a nice house. Certainly, an Ivy League education at one of America's best-known universities is worth going deeply into debt for—especially for people of the book, right?

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Here is Professor Hamid Dabashi, offering his view of recent Jewish history, the innate national characteristics of Israelis, and explaining the complexities of how advanced societies function in the digital age:

Every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious act happening in the world just wait for a few days and the ugly name of "Israel" will pop up as a key actor in the atrocities—

New York Times reports opponents of the Iran Nuclear deal (who else other than diehard Fifth Column Zionists working against the best interests of Americans and for the best interests of Israelis) were plotting to discredit those who were working to implement the deal— according to the New York Times:

"A detailed report about Mr. Rhodes, compiled by Black Cube, a private investigations firm established by former intelligence analysts from the Israel Defense Forces, contains pictures of his apartment in Washington, telephone numbers and email addresses of members of his family, as well as unsubstantiated allegations of personal and ethical transgressions."

"In a separate case in 2017, the same firm was hired to gather dirt on women accusing Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul, of multiple instances of sexual misconduct."